Re: Harry Potter and the God From The Machine
- From: alexey_r@xxxxxxx
- Date: 30 Nov 2005 07:43:10 -0800
James Nicoll wrote:
> In article <m24q5w64af.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> Mark Atwood <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >jdnicoll@xxxxxxxxx (James Nicoll) writes:
> >> near as I can tell, they think their marketing skills are fine, it's the
> >> consumer that is defective.
> >
> >I think they may be correct.
> >
> >I've been reading my way thru assorted political scandals in Canadian
> >history in Wikipedia. Good GOD, stuff like the Teapot Dome, Tamaney
> >Hall, and Watergate would get lost in noise. I have no idea what
> >y'all are so damn smug for.
>
> I recommend WHY I HATE CANADIANS in this matter. As is so
> often true, Canadians (in general) find validation by comparing
> their behavior with some other nation that is even worse in that
> field, much as De Haviland might favourably compare the Comet to
> the Me163 Komet.
>
> While Canada's corruption rating is rathering dismal compared
> to Iceland, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland,
> Norway, Australia, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and
> Luxembourg (according to Transparency International), Canadians do not
> compare themselves to Iceland, Finland, New Zealand, Denmark, Singapore,
> Sweden, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, Austria, the Netherlands, the
> United Kingdom and Luxembourg in this matter but rather to the United
> States, whose corruption index value is even worse than ours (7.6 to
> Canada's 8.4).
>
> I freely taking pride in doing better than the US in this
> matter is somewhat like being proud of having a healthier nuclear
> power industry than New Zealand or having more equitable gender
> relations than Saudi Arabia. It's like taking pride in being able
> to outrun Stephen Hawking and reflects poorly on the Canadian national
> character.
>
> I will point out that there are 130-odd nations even more
> corrupt than the US (France is two steps below the US, although their
> index numbers have improved recently) but more importantly thirteen
> nations less corrupt than Canada, who would make more useful benchmarks
> for us to use.
My own reaction to the index was: there is some country with worse
corruption than my own?!
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